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Children are being tested too much and too young
Testing of four-year-olds is a way of introducing covert selection into our schools system, says
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Baseline testing of four-year-old children is wrong.
I know this both from my experience as a school teacher and as a parent.
The idea that a test taken by a four-year-old in their very first few weeks at school can or should be any prediction of their future success, either individually or as a cohort, it not only wrong but dangerous.
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